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In Dialogue with the Greeks Volume II: Plato and Dialectic
304 Pages
by
Routledge
304 Pages
by
Routledge
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This second of two volumes on the Greeks by Rush Rhees takes up the questions bequeathed by the previous volume. If reality does not have the unity of a thing, can it have any kind of unity at all? The alternative seems to be that reality has the unity of a form. In this volume Rhees brings the perspective of a modern Wittgensteinian philosopher to bear on the dialogues of Plato. In his... Read more
Contents: Introduction; Part 1 Gorgias: Rhetoric and discourse; Desires and understanding; Morality, language and convention; Punishment, law and understanding; Socratic paradoxes. Part 2 Symposium: Enquiry, beauty and begetting; Love. Part 3 Phaedo: Forms; Becoming; The soul and the body; The immortality of the soul. Part 4 Republic: The notion of political wisdom; Independence and human relations; Education; Justice; Poetry and philosophy; Dialectic; Philosophy and contemplation. Part 5 Parmenides: Language and reality; The reality of things; The possibility of discourse. Part 6 Theaetetus: Knowledge and sensation; Sense and thought; Knowledge and error. Part 7 Sophist: The dialectician and the sophist; Logic and its application. Part 8 Timaeus: A limited account?; Space and time; The life of the soul; The world soul. Index.
Biography
Rush Rhees (1905 - 1989) was a close friend of Ludwig Wittgenstein and one of his literary executors. He devoted much of his life to editing his work. Rhees taught philosophy at the University of Wales, Swansea from 1940 to 1966, where he subsequently became an Honorary Professor and Fellow. Among his teachers he included John Anderson, Alfred Kastil, G. E. Moore and, above all, Ludwig Wittgenstein.
